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cross-posted from: https://piefed.zip/c/news@lemmy.world/p/2001376/judge-blasts-tesla-as-fraudulent-for-selling-junk-solar-panels-that-never-worked
Like many of its experimental products, Tesla’s Solar Roof — a solar panel array engineered to look like discreet roof tiles — has been a stunning failure. Nowhere is that flop more apparent than on the roof of Ambrose Conroy, a California homeowner who’s spent over six years battling with Tesla over the solar installation from hell.
According to Electrek, the whole saga began back in 2020, when Conroy entered an agreement to buy a 13.1 kW photovoltaic system from Tesla. Though the process was supposed to take a few weeks, it ran years late, as compounding errors and logistical disasters threw the project into chaos.
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A judge has now ruled Tesla acted fraudulently when it sold Conroy the initial $82,000 rooftop solar panel system, which the lawsuit says went on to cause an astounding $2.5 million in total damages.
Tesla has conceded to breaching its contact, as well as general negligence. But the company has fought on nearly every other claim of the case, earning it two sanctions from the judge for failing to produce internal documents.
$82k is an amazing amount for solar panels.
If your power bill is $500 a month, you’d break even after about ten years… I’m assuming it’s a big house. It would take me closer to 25 years to break even.
I’ve gotten to the point where I’m downvoting any post which has a news article containing the word “blasts.” If you don’t want downvotes find a source that knows how to fucking write.
